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Fantastic effort by Simpson (121*) and Lamb (107*). An unbeaten 201 for the 7th wicket so far in just 43.3ovs

When did football become a sport where teams wanted to increase their chances of winning?

I played against him once. Utter nob. Richard Tiltman played in the game too and looked quite useful (but not 'better than Dean Saunders' useful)

On now

Beat me to it

Back in the early days of Sky (I think) there was a regular round-table discussion on football by journalists, hosted I recall by the late Brian Woolnough(?), and it was far more informative than 90% of the ex-footballer punditry

It's probably been said further up the thread but people like Barton (and Lawrence Fox etc) just hate the idea of a level playing field because they will lose the jobs they didn't really have the talent for but got because 'white male'. More competition equals less work for the mediocre but...

Anyone who starts their Tweets with "Told" or "Understand" just wants to be Fabricatio Romano and can generally be ignored

Pedro bloody loves scoring against Marseille in the 88th minute doesn't he?

I know it's only a stat, but our xG On Target was 3.85. You would never expect a keeper to only make routine saves and still keep that down to 1

Given it's a different defence every game I doubt it makes much difference either way

3 clean sheets and all in Europe... maybe this European football isn't all it's cracked up to be? ;)

FutMob had listed Ferguson playing alongside Wee Billy instead of Groß. I nearly spat out my tea.

As Baldseagull says, both of these lads could do a job?

Those scores are bizarrely low for a team that narrowly lost away to the best team in the country and who matched them on xG. And they make it sound like March played left back ahead of a host of other options. Clowns

de Zerbi said he felt unwell due to the heat

From memory his header when he headed out was 0.13xG, but where he headed it was 0.7xGOT, so was an excellent save by Areola

Absolutely this. I cannot understand why anyone is even trying to debate against this point.

Were they morbidly obese?

I've just come back from all three places. I can attest that Cragside in particular is absolutely fantastic, but give it a full day as it's bloody enormous.